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Jamie Kudla
Jamie Kudla

Reputation: 872

Geolocation for a flash ad

How would I find the geolocation of a viewer (city and state) and then translate that into something I can use for flash?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 168

Answers (2)

Plastic Sturgeon
Plastic Sturgeon

Reputation: 12527

If you want to provide geolocation data to a flash ad, the best source is to get that data from your ad vendor. Ads have a special case for high-avaiablity and high-speed servers. Implementing this is non-trivial, and if your add is slow-performaing, publishers will complain and your campaign will get dropped.

Here is a page listing the leading ad media vendors. They will be able to work with you on your ad buy to provide GEOIP for your ad unit. http://advertising.microsoft.com/asia/ForAdvertisers/default.aspx?pageid=183

(and I'm sorry they don't link directly to the ad vendor sites, but this was the best list i could find. Each company comes up as first if you google their name.)

Upvotes: 1

javram
javram

Reputation: 2645

You could use a service like http://www.ip2location.com/ to get the users location based on their IP address when the page loads, and then translate the lat/lng coordinates into flash vars and pass those into your .swf file. The nice thing about using a service like this is that you don't have to maintain an ip lookup db yourself.

Upvotes: 0

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